May Day is one of those holidays that seems medieval, even ancient; the customs of flowers and fertility rites definitely feel like they go back a long time, and if they don't, they should. This is the difficulty with settling down to write about medieval May Day celebrations, because so much of what we associate …
Medieval Easter Traditions
Easter is full of odd traditions when you stop to think about them for a moment—why do chocolate eggs come from rabbits, and what do they have to do with the resurrection of Jesus?--and predictably, a good deal of that is just because they're so old we long since stopped paying attention to where they …
a medievalist errant 